I’ve dated three women in the past two years, and they all failed a simple test I gave them. I loved all of them, but in the end I had to let them go because they didn’t look like marriage material. The first one was Erica. I didn’t tell her anything, but anytime she came to visit, she didn’t cook or help clean my room. Even when I gave her money to buy food, she preferred to buy from a restaurant rather than prepare food for us to eat.

I left her before the relationship reached a year. Then Araba came. I told her what I needed in a woman: “Someone who will help with house chores and also understand the fact that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”

She came and didn’t bother to light the stove or help me clean. I was doing laundry one day, and she added the dress she had worn while visiting and said, “If you won’t wash it, leave it. I will do it myself.”

She wouldn’t lift a finger, but when she needed money, I was the first person she would call. That relationship also ended. I even suspected she was cheating because she dressed better than her finances could support.

I’m still with the third lady, Jessica. It’s over, but she doesn’t know it’s over. She told me point-blank that if I wanted her to do all that, then I should marry her first. But she expects me to give her money and do favors for her every now and then, even though she’s not my wife. How can you marry a woman when she hasn’t proved herself?

It’s not fun starting a new relationship, but it looks like the women I find don’t know what to do to keep a man or keep a home going. They lack the skills to keep a man happy but instead expect a man to keep them happy. Where are the women who understand love and know how to live it? Or are they just not made like that these days?

Three women in two years, and they all behaved like they were doing me a favor by dating them. Or am I the one expecting too much from them?

—Lord

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